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Jun 25, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, September 28, 1988 at Quarry Farm. Gretchen Sharlow, Elmira College graduate student and Assistant Director of the Center, will give an illustrated talk on "The Cranes of Quarry Farm." Mrs. Sharlow will share her work in progress on the important places held by Theodore and Susan Crane in the story of Mark Twain and his family
Topics: Elmira, Family, Quarry Farm, Twain's Circle
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May 22, 2018
05/18
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Recorded on March 24, 1993 at Quarry Farm. Lawrence I. Berkove is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is editor of The Fighting Horse of the Stanislaus: Stories and Essays by Dan De Quille , The Sagebrush Anthology: Literature from the Silver Age of the Old West, and The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain and coeditor of The Short Fiction of Ambrose Pierce as well as author of numerous articles on Twain
Topics: Early Years, Twain's Circle
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Jun 29, 2017
06/17
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Presented on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at the Park Church. John Pascal is in his sixteenth year teaching 9th and 11th grade English at Seton Hall Preparatory School in New Jersey. He is in his second year teaching a course he developed called “Writings of Mark Twain.” He is a contributing author to Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings (2016); he is the author of Artemus Ward: The Gentle Humorist (2008); has presented papers on Mark Twain and Artemus Ward at Mark...
Topics: Influences, Artemus Ward, Abraham Lincoln, Artemus Ward
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Jul 9, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, April 3, 1991 at Quarry Farm. Darryl Baskin, Center Director and Professor of American Studies, will speak on "Boss Morgan: Mark Twain, His Connecticut Yankee, and American Political Culture." Professor Baskin is the author of books, articles, and reviews in the field of American politics and political thought. He is general editor of Quarry Farm Papers and other Center publications.
Topics: Connecticut Yankee, Politics
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Oct 6, 2019
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Presented on Saturday, October 5, 2019 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the "Mark Twain and Nature" Quarry Farm Symposium. Although Mark Twain was not himself an environmentalist, he was deeply sensitive to the interdependence of humankind and the natural world, to the conditions, often difficult, under which we inhabit the natural world, and to its ultimate indifference to our desires -- issues that continue to preoccupy environmentalists and ecocritics, whether they are...
Topics: Nature, Life on the Mississippi
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Oct 8, 2018
10/18
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Presented on Saturday, October 6, 2018 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the Quarry Farm Weekend Symposium "American Literary History and Economics in the New Gilded Age" Economics historians often deploy the curiously sensational imagery of "revolution" to describe the theoretical innovations that circulated in Europe - and later in England and the United States - beginning in the early 1870s. The so called "Marginalist (or Neo-Classical) Revolution"...
Topics: Economics, Literary Realism
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Jun 26, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, June 29, 1988 at Quarry Farm. Professor James D. Wilson of Southwestern Louisiana University's English Department will speak on "Mark Twain, Olivia Langdon, and the Struggle for Orthodoxy." Dr. Wilson has a research fellowship in residence at the Center and is here for three weeks to continue work on a book well underway about Mark Twain and religion. He is the author of A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Mark Twain , other books, and numerous articles...
Topics: Religion, Family
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Jun 26, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, April 26, 1989 at Quarry Farm. Thomas J. Reigstad teaches writing and Mark Twain at the State University College at Buffalo. On sabbatical leave this spring, he is a Quarry Farm Fellow-in-Residence here at the Center working on a book length study of Twain's Buffalo times. He will talk about "Mark Twain in Buffalo: The Making of a Gentleman Journalist."
Topics: Buffalo, Early Years
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Jul 26, 2017
07/17
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Presented on Wednesday, June 6 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. “One mournful wail is heard from shore to shore; A Nation’s heart is stricken to the core,” wrote Albert Evans in the April 17, 1865, issue of the San Francisco newspaper the Alta California . Mere days after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Evans expressed the nation’s grief with his heartfelt poem, “The Martyr.” Not everyone was impressed, least of all Mark Twain, who criticized the poem’s ending “Gone!...
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction
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Jun 26, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, July 27, 1988 in Hamilton Hall on the Elmira College Campus. Professor Victor A. Doyno will talk about "Mark Twain's Family Life at Quarry Farm." Dr. Doyno is in residence at the Center for one week as a Guest Scholar in our N.E.H. Institute. He teaches literature at SUNY Buffalo and has authored books and articles on Mark Twain. Professor Doyno is a member of the Center's National Committee of Academic Advisors and has played an active role as a member of...
Topics: Elmira, Family, Quarry Farm
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Jul 8, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, April 11, 1990 at Quarry Farm. Alan Gribben of the University of Texas at Austin will speak on "Huckleberry Finn's Missing Twin." A nationally reknown and extensively published Mark Twain scholar, Professor Gribben is the Center's first Jervis Langdon, Jr. Research Fellow-in-Residence and appears under the auspices of the Center's Distinguished Academic Visitors Program. He is also a member of the Center's National Committee of Academic Advisors.
Topic: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Jul 10, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, May 27, 1992 at Quarry Farm. Professor janet Kinch of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania will talk about "Mark Twain and Germany." Professor Kinch has both studied and taught in Austira and is the editor of both Mark Twain's German Critical Reception: An Annotated Bibliography and The Handbook of German Popular Culture published by Greenwood Press. She is also a contributor to scholarly reference works on Mark Twain.
Topic: Travel
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Jul 9, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, November 6, 1991 at Quarry Farm. Professor Myra Glenn of Elmira College's History faculty will talk on "Love, Sex, and Death in the Victorian Marriage: The Case of Thomas K. Beecher, Olivia Day, and Julia Jones." Dr. Glenn has authored books, articles, and reviews in the field of nineteenth century American social history. She is well into a book length study of Thomas K. Beecher and has spoken previously at the Center on her work-in-progress.
Topics: Twain's Circle, Elmira
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Aug 23, 2017
08/17
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Presented on Wednesday, May 26 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Close your eyes and picture Mark Twain. What do you see? Most likely a white suit, white hair, big white whiskers, and a bigger cigar. What does he sound like? Southern with a drawl. "mark Twain Illustrated and Impersonated" is a historical discussion concerning what we know about Mark Twain - through the mediums of caricature and dramatic performance - and how we've come to know it. Through slides and...
Topics: Public Image, Branding, Reception
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Jun 22, 2017
06/17
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Presented on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at the Park Church. Sarah Ingle i s an English lecturer at the University of Virginia, where she received her PhD in English literature in 2014, specializing in 19th-century American literature and African American literature. She has visited Elmira several times as a Quarry Farm Research Fellow and as a presenter at several conferences. She has also taught a class on “Huck Finn and Cultural Conflict” and has delivered conference papers and published...
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, National Identity, Religion, Magic, Racial Issues
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Jun 25, 2019
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Presented on Thursday, October 8, 1987 in Beecher Hall of the Park Church, Elmira, New York. Everett Emerson will speak on "Mark Twain's Quarrel with God." He promises to come to grips with his topic in a manner sensitive to believers. Dr. Emerson holds degrees in Literature from Harvard College, Duke University, and Louisiana State University. He is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Editor-in-Chief of Early American...
Topic: Religion
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Jul 8, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, May 9, 1990 at Quarry Farm. Richard B. Carter teaches Philosophy at the University of Maryland's Baltimore County Campus and offers us a philosopher's view of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in a talk entitled "Yankee Ingenuity as the Foundation for the New Social Order." Professor Carter has published books and articles in his field here and abroad.
Topics: Connecticut Yankee, Philosophy
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Jun 26, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, May 4, 1988 at Quarry Farm. Nicholas Karanovich will talk about "Collecting Mark Twain" as a highly successful practitioner of the art. His collection will be on exhibit next year at the Lilly Library of the University of Indiana. Mr. Karanovich is a past contributor to American Book Collector and the private publisher of A Mark Twain Collector's List .
Topic: Collections
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Dec 21, 2016
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Presented at at Elmira 2001: the Fourth International Conference on Mark Twain Studies, August 2001
Topics: Patriotism, Imperialism, Later Works
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Dec 10, 2016
12/16
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Presented Wednesday, April 28 at the Quarry Farm Barn. Judith Yaross Lee is Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Charles E. Zumkehr Professor of Rhetoric & Culture in the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. A contributor to the Mark Twain Encyclopedia and the Oxford Mark Twain, she is the author or editor of five books and some fifty essays and articles on American humor and related topics, most recently Twain’s Brand: Humor in Contemporary American...
Topics: Connecticut Yankee, Imperialism
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Jun 14, 2018
06/18
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Presented on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at the Park Church. It is well known that Twain took contemporary social, political, and particularly racial beliefs to task through an incisive skepticism which outpaced many of his generation. But Twain also understood the role that science and empiricism played in the formation and justification of social projects. Like many of his time, he was thrilled by the explosion of new technologies and systems that characterized the 19th century. For...
Topics: Science Fiction, Technology, Tragedy of Puddn'head Wilson, Later Works, Science
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Oct 17, 2019
10/19
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Presented on Wednesday, October 16 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus as part of the 2019 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a rousing adventure, a realistic depiction of American boyhood, a satirical critique of American society, and a foundational text for all of modern American literature. But part of what makes the story so transcendent and enduring is that Huck Finn is also a myth. In this story of two fugitives fleeing down the river,...
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Novels, Influences
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Jul 16, 2019
07/19
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Presented on May 20, 1998 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1998 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Dr. Ensor is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Bible (University of Kentucky Press, 1969) as well as several entires in the Mark Twain Encyclopedia Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993).
Topic: American Civil War
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Aug 30, 2017
08/17
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Presented on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. There have been many books on Mark Twain, but none have fully developed his rabid entrepreneurial side and pursuit of great wealth in the spirit of the robber barons until now. Peter Krass will discuss what he discovered in writing Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends: The Business Adventures of Mark Twain , which explores this oft-neglected side of Twain's life. The talk will illuminate his rollercoaster ride...
Topics: Economics, Biography
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Sep 13, 2019
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Presented on Thursday, September 12, 2019 at the Chemung Valley History Museum as part of the Chemung County Historical Society Twain Lecture Series. Despite their ongoing popularity, Mark Twain's frequent forays into historical fiction have often puzzled literary critics. Dr. Cadle will focus his talk on the "straight" Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc , which Twain knew was so so unusual for him that he first published it under a pseudonym. Nathaniel Cadle is Assistant Professor...
Topics: Joan of Arc, Romanticism
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May 10, 2018
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Presented on Wednesday, May 9 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. By the 1860s, Jervis Langdon, Mark Twain's father-in-law, was ready to create a home that announced his status as one of Elmira's most successful and influential businessmen. After purchasing a house built in the 1850s, he immediately arranged to have it enlarged and remodeled in the fashionable Italianate style. The result was an imposing three-story brownstone mansion that was counted among the largest and most elegant urban...
Topics: Elmira, Family, Decorative Arts, Architecture
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Jul 11, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, April 13, 1994 at Quarry Farm. Willaim Loos is the Curator of the Buffalo and Erie County Library Rare Book Room which houses an outstanding Mark Twain collection of letters, memorabilia and the entire manuscript of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . He brings to the Center the detailed story of Buffalo's acquisition of the recently recovered Part II of the manuscript.
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Museum Studies
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Oct 11, 2018
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Presented on Wednesday, October 10, 2018 in The Barn at Quarry Farm. New Orleans writer, Grace King, enjoyed a two-decade friendship with Sam and Livy Clemens and their daughters, Susy, Clara, and Jean. King visited the family in Hartford in 1887 and 1888 and in Florence in 1892. She wrote to her family about the Twain homes, meals, dress, and habits. From New Orleans, she exchanged letters with each Clemens, especially Livy, with whom she was a confidante. As each family member died,...
Topics: Twain's Circle, Letters, Family
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Jul 11, 2017
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Presented on September 16, 1985 at Quarry Farm. Hamlin Hill is a Professor of English at University of New Mexico. His books include Mark Twain's God's Fool (1975) and America's Humor: From Poor Richard to Doonesbury (1978), written with Walter Blair. Mark Twain, we sometimes forget, was the greatest invention of Samuel Clemens - a fictional creature with many different guises and disguises. Among the most memorable masks are those of the clown, the Westerner, the crackerbarrel...
Topic: Public Image
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May 31, 2018
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Presented on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. There is no shortage of commentary on Twain's penchant for talk, how he transliterated and employed it. he perfected the mock oral narrative, precisely rendered of frontier and river vernacular, created the stunning narrative method of Huck Finn's voice, and crafted countless, repeatable maxims (ironically, one being: "I talk until I have my audience cowed"). Yet, silence permeates the writings of Mark...
Topics: Rhetoric, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Jun 15, 2017
06/17
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Presented on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at the Park Church. Molly Ball is an Assistant Professor of English at Eureka College. She received her PhD in 2016 from the University of California at Davis, and she is currently at work on a book manuscript, tentatively titled, “Writing Out of Time: Temporal Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century Narrative,” that explores narrative structure in Anglophone literature. She is particularly interested in questions about national identity and travel, and...
Topics: Travel, Hawaii
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Jul 20, 2018
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Recorded on May 7, 1986 as part of the Spring 1986 "Trouble Begins at Eight" lecture series. Kerry Driscoll is Professor of English (emerita) at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, CT. She is the past president of the Mark Twain Circle of America, a member of the editorial board for the Circle's journal, the Mark Twain Annual , and serves on the Board of Trustees at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford. In addition to numerous essays she has published on...
Topics: Racial Issues, Native Americans
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Aug 24, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, September 29 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Join biographer Jerome Loving for an up-close examination of the author and his times in 1884, one done as a "sequel" to Loving's recent biography, Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens . The basis for this talk is the unpublished Prologue of a work-in-progress to be called " Annus Mirabilis : Mark Twain's America in 1885." With more than 25 illustrations, Dr. Loving's presentation will follow the...
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Biography
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Oct 8, 2018
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Presented as the keynote for the 2018 Quarry Farm Weekend Symposium "American Literary History and Economics in the New Gilded Age" on Friday, October 5, 2018 in Meier Hall on the Elmira College Campus. Why does American history seem to swing like a pendulum between eras of relative equality and eras of extreme inequality? Can we recover from the second Gilded Age? New answers to these questions are coming from an unexpected source - Darwin's theory of evolution, which has...
Topics: Science, Economics, The Gilded Age
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Oct 24, 2019
10/19
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Presented on Wednesday, October 23 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the 2019 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series. Just as would be the case today, Sam and Livy Clemens embarked on an adventure in building a new house. Like any young couple, having a dream, selecting an architect, and seeing a project through to the finish is always a challenge. Sam and Livy spent a substantial portion of her inheritance on the house, and their love for it was life-long, even after they left it. At the...
Topics: Architecture, Hartford, Art
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Sep 1, 2017
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Presented on Thursday, November 30, 2006 in the Tifft Lounge on the Elmira College Campus. Mark Twain would have loved the internet - and probably lost a fortune when the dot.com bubble burst. Against the background of the ambivalent role advanced technology plays in Twain's life and art, we'll look hard at the online electronic archive "Mark Twain In His Times." Since it began ten years ago, 5,000,000 people have used it to study and teach Mark Twain's work. How does it work?...
Topics: Internet, Media Studies, Technology
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May 28, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, May 22 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus as part of the Spring 2019 "Trouble Begins" Lecture Series. This lecture focuses on the findings of the Quarry Farm Historic Structures Report, being prepared by Johnson-Schmidt & Associates (Preservation Architects) for the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies. As of the recording of this lecture, the Quarry Farm historic structures report was still not yet fully completed. Elise Johnson-Schmidt...
Topics: Quarry Farm, Architecture, Preservation
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May 9, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the 2019 "Trouble Begins" lecture series. After a relatively free-wheeling period in his life in the American West, Mark Twain courted and married a genteel young woman from a prominent Elmira family, and he became the paterfamilias of a thoroughly Victorian family of his own. His major published works were deemed suitable for young men and young women alike, and he raised his three daughters in a strictly...
Topics: Gender Studies, Sexuality, Early Years, Later Works
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May 29, 2018
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Presented on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. During and after his 1866 visit to Hawai'i, Mark Twain wrote about the place, its people, and their relationship to the United States in several different genres: newspaper articles, first as a correspondent for the Sacramento Union (1866) and then for other papers, including the New York Herald ; a poplar lecture titled "Our Fellow Savages of the SandwichIslands" (1866-1873); two travelogues, Roughing...
Topics: Imperialism, Travel, Hawaii, Early Years
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Jul 11, 2019
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Presented on July 13, 1992 at Quarry Farm. Thomas Quirk, the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri, will speak on "Is Huckleberry Finn 'Politically Correct?'" Professor Quirk is this Summer's scholar-in-residence at the Center. He is the author of books, articles, and reviews in the fields of American literature and culture and will chair the panel on "Critical Approaches to Mark Twain" at the Center's conference next summer on...
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Current Events
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Jul 12, 2019
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Presented on May 29, 1996 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1996 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Richard Bucci is an editor at The Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. His works include Mark Twain's Letters Volumes 1 & 2 and the forthcoming Volumes 3 & 4 of Early Tales & Sketches by Mark Twain.
Topics: Mark Twain Project, Early Works
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Aug 7, 2017
08/17
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Friday, August 4, 2017 in the Tripp Lecture Hall on the Elmira College Campus as part of Elmira 2017: The Eighth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies. According to Mark Twain’s narrator in Roughing It (1872), when he and his older brother Orion left Missouri for Nevada Territory in July, 1861, the older brother carried a “small-sized Colt’s revolver,” and the younger was armed with a “pitiful little Smith and Wesson’s seven-shooter.” These...
Topics: Violence, Technology
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Dec 9, 2016
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Presented on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at the Quarry Farm Barn. Paula Harrington, a 2013 Fulbright Scholar, is Director of the Farnham Writers’ Center at Colby College, where she also teaches in the English Department. She has published in The Mark Twain Annual and the Minnesota Review . When most people think of Mark Twain, France does not come immediately to mind. Readers associate him, naturally, with the Mississippi River and the towns—fictional and real—along its banks made famous by...
Topics: France, Public Image, Influences
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Jul 25, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, May 30 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. The United States annexed the Philippines in 1899, rationalizing its colonization of Filipinos as "benevolent assimilation." Twain, furious that his country was trying to become a colonialist power, called the rationale "hogwash" and "pious hypocrisy." Susan K. Harris examines a rarely seen political side of Twain, a man deeply engaged by world events and deeply disturbed by his country's foray into...
Topics: Imperialism, National Identity
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Jul 9, 2019
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Presented on Monday, July 1, 1991 at Quarry Farm. Professor Leland Krauth of the University of Colorado will speak on "The Whimsical Mark Twain." Professor Krauth, a member of the Editorial Board of Studies in American Humor since 1982, is the author of numerous articles and reviews on Mark Twain and other American literary figures.
Topic: Humor Studies
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Aug 30, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. One of the remarkable and often neglected facts about Mark Twain is that he had the capacity to change his mind, even well into his old age, when most of us nestle in the Barcalounger of settled opinion. Many are of course familiar with his change in attitude toward race (though we may have been misled about how that change occurred), but he also changed his mind on women's suffrage, trade unions, capital punishment, patriotism,...
Topics: Psychology, Biography
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May 13, 2020
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Presented virtually on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 as part of the 2020 Spring Trouble Begins Lecture Series. Considered a satirist, travel writer, and lecturer, Twain was rarely presented as a poet or appreciator of poetry to the public during his life - and still today many people assume an antagonistic relationship between Twain and verse. In fact, Twain penned 120 poems (the bulk being of humorous nature) and was an avid reader and performer of Robert Browning's works. Additionally, Twain...
Topics: Poetry, Marginalia
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Jul 28, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. For most of us, the author Mark Twain is indelibly linked with his classic books about two juvenile delinquents, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. The scenes of Tom flimflamming his buddies into whitewashing a fence and Huck and Jim floating down the river to freedom on a raft easily come to mind. What doesn't pop into our heads, however, is Mark Twain's writings about the natural world in its myriad forms. Read any of his...
Topics: Roughing It, Science, Nature
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Dec 10, 2016
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Presented on Wednesday, September 24 at the Quarry Farm Barn. Chad Rohman is Professor of English and Director of the Core Curriculum at Dominican University in River Forest, IL. He is the editor of the Mark Twain Annual and co-editor, with Joe Csicsila, of Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain’s No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (University of Missouri Press, 2009). His primary research interests include nineteenth-century American literature, particularly Mark Twain and his cohort, American...
Topics: Religion, Influences, Social Justice
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Aug 24, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, May 13 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. In the summer of 1883 close friends Joe Twichell and Samuel Clemens fell out over a piece of unwanted publicity the minister had published in the Hartford Courant - an incident with Quarry Farm origins. Clemens sent the clipping to relatives, scrawling on it: "I send this to beg that at least you folks will avoid this damned fool's example." It was one of several events that stand in relief against the two men's...
Topics: Joseph Twichell, Twain's Circle, Letters, Quarry Farm
